pip's mk2 gsi replica build

[nova_pipi]

Sorted some more bits out that I wanted doing, started with strengthening the wish bone arms with some 3mm plate, cut them to shape, welded in and tidied up before a prime and paint.
I also sorted the gearbox mount for the f20 3 bolts, this also got painted but must have missed the pictures.
I then made up some lowered tie bar brackets, welded some 3mm plate to make them roughly 20mm lower, just need to get some box section to make fit correctly on the car. These were painted gloss black too.

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[nova_pipi]

When I'd previously had the rear disk setup the cable sat to high from the beam so when running the car low it was rubbing on the chassis and never really worked very well, so I've decided to run astra cables for the handbrake but saw that people had issues with the mounts catching on the chassis so decided to run a length of tube through the rear beam to keep the strength but channel the cable at a lower angle and curing these problems, so I cut out a small Grove and welded in the length of tube, had a test fit and looked to work well, as I was also turreting the rear end the coilovers would fit better and a bit more into the car so to reduce the angle and give the suspension that little bit more travel i moved the rear suspension mounts slightly and welded these in, the rear beam then got sand blasted and powder coated black.

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[House]

Top work!!

[Iain]

Neat cable solution on the rear beam, but it would make me nervous cutting into such a structural and stressed part like that.

[nova_pipi]

Top work!!

Thanks, it's getting there

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[nova_pipi]

Neat cable solution on the rear beam, but it would make me nervous cutting into such a structural and stressed part like that.

I know what you mean, I was thinking that at the time but it's only a small section cut out then re strengthened with the pipe and welded back up so shouldn't change any strength to it really I would have thought

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[nova_pipi]

A lot work was done on the engine bay first, both legs were fibreglassed and smoothed along with all other bits in the bay having the same process, the full engine bay was then polyester primed then flatted and blocked to get everything as smooth as possible.
The plan was to give the whole shell and repairs the same process and once everything was blocked and flatted it would then be primed and painted.

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[torquey]

Looking well pal.

[nova_pipi]

Looking well pal.

Thanks coming along nicely now

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[nova_pipi]

The arches were reshaped and tidied up with the doors on too correcting all the swage lines on the whole car, everything was then polyester primed, looked nice just being one colour for once

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